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Brag About Your Vinyl Collection
There are a couple of posts for listing your favorite albums, but what about those albums that you've collected simply for value or rarity? Here is your chance to tell about some of the rare and valuable records in your collection, where you found them, how you store/display them, etc.
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The Faust Tapes, sold in 1973 for 49p. My wife bought it, and in teenage fashion, she cut out all the articles she could find about Virgin's marketing gimmick and taped them to the inner sleeve. Though I think my most expensive buy was Magna Carta's first, self-titled album for for €78. A wonderful early folk rock delight. |
@dogberry tell us more about the Faust tapes. I have heard it was ultra rare, but seems to pop up from time to time. |
Funny, when I bought my copy new in ’73, then as a young lad, the hype was that this album was going to be ultra rare as they were only pressing a very small number. I bought the album, played it a couple of times, thought the music was pretty sub-par and let it go into my collection ( I still own it today). My copy is Mint (as it was played maybe five times over the years!). Now we see Virgin essentially lied about the release numbers ( appx 60K!) and pushed the album onto young unexpecting folk. One funny instance though, several years back i took this record to a show- wherein they were looking for the worst music on record...and it WON! Oddly enough, I don’t remember paying 49p for it...although I do remember paying the large sum of Two pounds fifty for the OG Black Sabbath albums I bought back then....seemed like a king’s ransom at the time! |
